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finally finished a few
I've been messing around witha lot of different stuff this winter.
These are my first plugs turned off center. It took me a while to figure out how to get the shape I wanted. Its hard to get them symetrical by hand, took me a loooong time to turn these. I finally figured out that after turning the shape round, just making the same # of passes with the gouge and then once over with the skew on each side on each of the off center axis gets me pretty close to the shape I was after. Very time consuming but I'm not making a lot so thats ok.
These are 6", and right around 2 1/4 oz. I went thru a pile of bodies and atleast 15 -20 different lip shapes & sizes getting them to swim right. These get down around 3' feet deep on a slow steady retrieve in calm water. Can't wait to put em in some moving water next spring when the herring are around.
I've also been messing around with foil finish, I really like the way these came out. Best part for me is less painting. It will be real interesting to see how these hold up.
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